Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai Maritime East Asia in Global History, 15501700
Andrade, Tonio (Editor)/ Hang, Xing (Editor)
Language: English
Published by Univ of Hawaii Pr, 2016
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- Title
- Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai Maritime East Asia in Global History, 15501700
- Author
- Andrade, Tonio (Editor)/ Hang, Xing (Editor)
- Publisher
- Univ of Hawaii Pr
- Publication year
- 2016
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- Brand New
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 0824852761
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- 9780824852764
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- 0.78 kilograms
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- Book 4 of 15: Perspectives on the Global Past
What happened as all of these peoples, each with their own legal and cultural notions about the seas and seaborne commerce, came into increasing contact? Maritime East Asia was in many ways a zone of contradictions, subject to multiple legal, political, and religious jurisdictions and mediums of communication lost or manipulated in translation among dozens of major languages and countless dialects. Informal networks based upon kinship and patron-client ties mingled uneasily with formal bureaucratic structures and rationalized monopoly organizations. Subsistence-based trade and plunder by destitute fishermen complemented the grand dreams of sea-lords, profit-maximizing entrepreneurs, and imperial contenders. Despite their shifting identities, East Asia's mariners sought to anchor their activities to stable legitimacies and diplomatic traditions found outside the system. On the other hand, outsiders, even those armed with the latest military technology, could never fully impose their values upon the institutional fluidity of maritime East Asia.
This multilateral perspective of a world in flux opens a whole range of contingencies to accepted narratives of the ""rise of the West."" Consider, for example that European mariners, whom we have come to associate with catalyzing globalization and opening oceanic trade routes, were far from the most important actors in East and Southeast Asia. During the period surveyed in these pages, it was the Chinese whose traders carried more in volume and value than any other nation. The authors of this volume offer a new perspective not just on East Asian history but on global history, because the China Seas were key to forging the connections of early globalization, as important as the Atlantic World and the Indian Ocean basin, both of which regions have received far more scholarly attention. The multiplicity of possibilities remains in the twenty-first century, as a resurgent China attempts to reassert its traditional hegemony in competition with other native and outside players.
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Xing Hang is assistant professor of history at Brandeis University.
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